Lifetime Television

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 7:53am on Friday, November 20th, 2009

Salon wants to know why Lifetime seems to have smothered the baby it adopted from Bravo. Heather Havrilesky writes on November 20, 2009:

"Irina Shabeyeva won last night's finale of "Project Runway," which might have been interesting if it were remotely unexpected, or if someone said something memorable during the entire finale.

Where were the demented comments and the late-night breakdowns and the mimicry of former seasons? Were the contestants chosen without any regard to their personalities or lack thereof? Or did the producers do an awful job of encouraging spirited talk and then editing it together to form a provocative narrative?

The story of season six was that there was no story."

The full story:
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/project_runway/index.html

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 6:18pm on Sunday, October 18th, 2009

The Lifetime TV website has launched "All the Looks," an interactive website for celebrity style fans featuring a searchable database of tens of thousands of celebrity fashion and hair photos from red carpet events.

Thanks to an advanced photo-finder tool, visitors to Lifetime's All the Looks can customize their searches to find celebrity looks organized by dozens of criteria, such as celebrity name; event; hair color, length and style; and clothing designer, color and pattern.

The site has images from more than 2,000 red-carpet events and showcases more than 450 fashion designers and 600 celebrities. Virtually any red carpet photo may be available on the site.

Fans can not only view and rate celebrity photos, but they can also select images to add to customized "lookbooks," which they can caption with their own comments and easily share with friends. These lookbooks give users the ability to categorize photos according to their own needs, such as ideas for a new haircut, favorite awards show outfits, this year's worst dressed, fashion inspirations or a favorite celebrity's style through the years.

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 4:33pm on Monday, August 10th, 2009

Project Runway, the hit fashion competition now on Lifetime TV, has a new companion series called Models of the Runway. "Models" will give fans a behind-the-scenes look at the reality competition - from the models' perspective.

Viewers can experience the drama, anxiety, joys, tears and frustrations as the models themselves face elimination each week and compete for a cash prize and photo spread in Marie Claire magazine.

Project Runway will premiere on Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 10PM ET/PT, and lead directly into Models of the Runway at 11PM ET/PT.

Both series are produced by The Weinstein Company, Miramax Films, Bunim-Murray Productions and Full Picture Productions.

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 4:41pm on Sunday, July 26th, 2009

For the first time in Project Runway history, eight former fan favorites and Project Runway superstars are returning to the catwalk to compete against one another in the two-hour special, Project Runway: All-Star Challenge. The show premieres Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 8PM ET/PT and will be followed by the premiere of the sixth season of Project Runway at 10PM ET/PT. The announcement was made on July 22 by Lifetime Television and The Weinstein Company.

At stake for the designers is a $100,000 cash prize. Will the designers be up to the challenge of returning to the workroom, working under the "Gunn" (Tim Gunn) to create a successful fashion line? Are they ready to, once again, face the critiques of Heidi Klum, Michael Kors and Nina Garcia, as they showcase their creations?

The designers competing in Project Runway: All-Star Challenge are as follows:

-- Daniel Vosovic, Season 2
-- Santino Rice, Season 2
-- Jeffrey Sebelia, Season 3
-- Uli Herzner, Season 3
-- Mychael Knight, Season 3
-- Chris March, Season 4
-- Sweet P, Season 4
-- Korto Momolu, Season 5

Hosted by supermodel and fashion maven Heidi Klum, the hit series Project Runway provides budding designers with an opportunity to launch their careers in fashion, under the watchful eye of mentor and Liz Claiborne Chief Creative Officer Tim Gunn. The competition reality series has proven to be one of television's most talked about shows and was the highest rated unscripted competition on all of cable for 2008.